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The Japanese had snipers and other soldiers in the Philippines before the invasion [Annotator's Note: Fall of the...

Lionel Lopez was shot in the back and it came out of his chest. He was taken to a field hospital. The doctor stitched...

[Annotator's Note: James McEnery served in the USMC as a rifleman in Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st...

James Oney left New Caledonia at midnight with a destroyer escort. They arrived three days later in the Russell Islands...

Burton "Burt" Johnson was born in December 1925 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. When he was seven, he spent the summer at...

Donald Marsaglia was born in Coal City, Illinois in April 1924. Coal City was a small town of about 1,300 people....

William Wayne had joined the Marine Corps with John Shepperly who got shot through the arm landing on Iwo Jima, Japan....

Kenneth Killilea and the 4th Marine Division left Maui to invade the Japanese island of Saipan. It was a disaster from...

After high school, Harold Whitaker was bumming around and getting trouble until his mother and a family friend...

Lester Hecht went to boot camp at Parris Island in South Carolina. He got in shape. It did not bother him. He was older...

Bailey was assigned to unloading ships. When he wasn't unloading ships he was walking around. He couldn't stay still....

Dale Smith was aboard the USS Proteus (AS-19) 99 percent of the time. They had movies and a huge mess hall. If no...

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